Flying high aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump unleashed a fiery tirade against the Wall Street Journal, calling it a “rotten newspaper” and accusing it of siding with China—all while cameras rolled and the press watched in stunned silence.
The 78-year-old president’s outburst was caught in a now-viral 34-second video posted to social media over the weekend, as reported by the Irish Star. The confrontation began when a reporter aboard the presidential plane asked Trump a question. Before answering, Trump snapped, “Who are you with?” Upon hearing the Wall Street Journal, he fired back: “That’s what I thought.”
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“You people treat us so badly,” Trump continued. Then came the harshest blow: “The Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. Rotten newspaper.” He repeated himself for emphasis: “You hear me, what I said: It’s a rotten newspaper.”
Even as the reporter tried to follow up—likely on foreign policy issues involving Ukraine, Russia, or China—Trump shut it down. “I wouldn’t call the Wall Street Journal because they would be wasting my time,” he said, before adding, “The Wall Street Journal is China-oriented.”
The video sparked immediate backlash online, with critics accusing Trump of demonizing the press. “Anyone who disagrees with Trump is rotten and ‘legacy media,’” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Another added, “You don’t need to be a radical leftist to oppose his idiocy. All you need is half a brain and basic common sense.”
The confrontation came just days after Trump raised eyebrows with another controversial statement—this time about World War II. In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed: “We did more than any other country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II.”
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\He then proposed renaming May 8th as Victory Day to commemorate the end of WWII, and shifting Veterans Day on November 11th to mark the end of World War I. His comments didn’t sit well abroad. General Lord Dannatt, former chief of the British Army’s general staff, called the remarks “extraordinary.” “Talk about rewriting history,” he said.
“It was only the attack on Pearl Harbour that eventually brought the US into the war. Or is Trump so anti-Europe that he has forgotten that?” Trump’s dual rants—one airborne, one online—have reignited concerns about his combative tone and historical revisionism as he pushes forward with his re-election campaign. While his base continues to cheer, critics argue his latest outbursts signal a presidency increasingly defined by grievance and spectacle.
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